Psychology of information technologies in politics

Course: Political Psychology

Structural unit: Faculty of Psychology

Title
Psychology of information technologies in politics
Code
ВБ.2.02
Module type
Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
Second
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
3 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4
Learning outcomes
LO2. Organize and conduct psychological research using valid and reliable methods. LO6. Develop educational materials and programs, implement them, receive feedback, evaluate quality. LO 12. Develop and possess technologies of political and psychological research.
Form of study
Prerequisites and co-requisites
To know the basic concepts of general, social and political psychology; have an understanding of cross-cultural, transdisciplinary research. To be able to search for the necessary information, analyse and critically evaluate it; formulate social inquiries and relate them to their professional activities. To have the skills of working with scientific and reference apparatus and information; basic methods of collecting and interpreting the facts of social and political reality; establishing logical cause and effect relationships: have the necessary and sufficient range of ways of arguing and presenting information in order to influence a political actor, conducting discussions.
Course content
The discipline is designed to form students' scientific understanding of the possibilities and limits of the use of information, information technologies as a means, mechanism, function of political and psychological construction, and management of society. Coverage of key ideas and categories of political communication studies. Acquaintance with the latest conceptual apparatus, theoretical and methodological problems, socio-psychological, political and psychological phenomena, mechanisms and regularities on which the technologies of creating and correcting information influences are based, creates prerequisites for better orientation of the individual in social, socio-political processes.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Komunikatyvni texnolohiyi informacijnoho suspil"stva : monohrafiya / za nauk. red. A. I. Husyeva. Kropyvnyc"kyj : Imeks-LTD, 2020. 142 c. Lytvynenko O. V. Informacijni operaciyi ta vplyvy. Kyyiv, 2003. 240 s. Pochepcov H. Polittexnolohiyi v zahal"nij systematyci texnolohij vplyvu // Suchasna ukrayins"ka polityka. Polityky i politolohy pro neyi. Specvypusk Politychni texnolohiyi. Kyyiv : Ukrayins"kyj centr politychnoho menedzhmentu, 2008. 152 s.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
lecture, role-play, seminar, individual work, case-study
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral answers (presentation at the seminar, participation in discussions and debates, additions). -30/18 points Analytical report, abstract: 25/15 points Creative independent work: 20/12 points Final control work: 25/15 points The final assessment is conducted in the form of credit. The grade is based on the results of the student's work during the semester (the maximum number of points for work during the semester is 100) and does not provide for additional assessment measures for successful students. Students who have gained less than 60 points during the semester, but more than the critical calculation minimum of 40 points, pass the test. The test is conducted in the form of oral questioning on the course subject and a creative individual task, which are assessed at 20 points. Students who have gained less than the critical-calculated minimum of 40 points during the semester are not allowed to take the test. Passed 60-100 Fail 0-59
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Tetiana Mykhailivna Traverse
Department of Social Psychology
Faculty of Psychology

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department of Social Psychology
Faculty of Psychology